Prof Claudia Denkinger

Prof Denkinger is an infectious disease specialist, with a background in immunology and epidemiology and a research focus on global health-relevant diagnostic development, evaluation and implementation.

Prof Denkinger specialised in internal medicine and infectious disease at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School, USA and was also a chief medical resident there. At the BIDMC, She was the co-founder and co-director of the Global Health Programme that promotes international partnerships and resident training in Global Health. She continued to hold a faculty appointment in the Division of Infectious Disease at the BIDMC, Harvard Medical School, Boston until March 2015. Starting 2014, she served as the Head of the TB Unit at the FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, a not-for-profit organization that aims to develop, evaluate and implement fit-for-purpose diagnostic solutions for disease of poverty. At FIND, she also built the new Hepatitis Programme. She has contributed significantly to TB and hepatitis research in advancing the understanding of the needs around diagnostics in limited-resource settings and the development and evaluation of novel diagnostic tools to meet those needs. For her work on TB diagnostics, she has been awarded the Gertrud Meissner Prize of the European Society of Mycobacteriology in 2016.

Since 2019, she leads the Division of Clinical Tropical and Infectious Disease Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, where she continues her work on global health and diagnostics and serves to address the clinical infectious diseases needs of a large, primarily migrant population.